Feb. 17 was an otherwise quiet evening for Chicago Police District 19 in Lakeview East. The crime incidents report showed a motor vehicle theft in the 300 block of West Barry Avenue, an attempt to cash a counterfeit check at a credit union in the 3200...

Dallas police have determined that a rifle round was used to kill an Iraqi man while he was photographing a rare snowfall in the city with his wife, but it remains unclear if he was targeted because of his race or religion, authorities said Friday....

ORMOND BEACH — A Central Florida man faces hate crime charges after authorities say he told a man the bar they were in wasn't for blacks and hit him with a bottle.
Forty-four-year-old Jason Cuellar was brought to the Volusia County Jail...

A central Florida man faces hate crime charges after a bar fight during which he hit another man in the head with a bottle.
Jail records show 44-year-old Jason Cuellar remains in the Volusia County Jail following the Friday night incident.
Deputies...

The prison sentences of eight members of an Amish sect were reduced by a federal judge in Cleveland on Monday after hate crime convictions were thrown out against them in a case involving hair- and beard-cutting attacks on other Amish in Ohio.
In all, 16 men and women, including group leader Samuel Mullet Sr., had been convicted in the case. Eight were resentenced Monday for convictions on charges including obstruction of justice and conspiracy remaining in the case after a federal appeals court last...

Prosecutors in North Carolina plan to seek the death penalty for a man charged with shooting and killing three Muslim students in an apartment complex parking lot last month.
A spokeswoman for Durham County Superior Court confirmed Dist. Atty. Roger Echols' office will try Craig Hicks on capital murder charges in the fatal shootings of Deah Shaddy Barakat, his wife, Yusor Mohammad, and her sister, Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, in a Chapel Hill, N.C., neighborhood. All three attended college in the Raleigh-...

MIAMI — The mother of Trayvon Martin says she's disappointed that federal prosecutors decided not to charge a neighborhood watch volunteer with a hate crime for killing her son three years ago.
Speaking with The Associated Press on Wednesday before the third anniversary of her 17-year-old son's death, Sybrina Fulton says she still believes George Zimmerman got away with murder.
"He took a life, carelessly and recklessly, and he shouldn't deserve to have his entire life walking around on the...

In his Op-Ed piece in the L.A. Times on Wednesday, President Obama referred to the killing last week of three young Muslim Americans in Chapel Hill, N.C. Authorities there say that Deah Shaddy Barakat, his wife, Yusor Abu-Salha, and her sister Razan Abu-Salha were shot by Craig Stephen Hicks, a neighbor of the married couple.
“We do not yet know why three young people, who were Muslim Americans, were brutally killed in Chapel Hill, N.C.,” Obama wrote. “But we know that many Muslim...

While a homeless man has been arrested and charged in connection with a fire that destroyed a building at an Islamic center in Houston, investigators aren't commenting on a possible motive, including whether it may have been a hate crime.
Darryl Ferguson, 55, was arrested and charged with first-degree felony arson in connection with the blaze, set near a storage area of the Quba Islamic Institute mosque and school in southeast Houston on Friday. Although there were fears that the fire was set...

An attack on two Hispanic men in the parking lot of a Burger King and three vandalism cases — one involving anti-gay slurs and another, a racial epithet — make up all the hate crimes reported in Palm Beach County in the most recent year for which data is available.
Public safety agencies across Florida's third-largest county reported just five hate crimes for 2013. That includes the twice-counted parking lot assault, measured that way because of its two victims.
The county's tally puts the...